FLOAT 100 · Trading cards · No. 96
2023-24 Panini Prizm Victor Wembanyama #136 Silver RC
The 7-foot-4 Frenchman arrived as the most anticipated rookie in years and then outplayed the hype; his Silver Prizm rookie, from one of the last NBA-licensed Prizm sets, is the card a generation of collectors chased.
- Year
- 2023-24
- Maker
- Panini Prizm
- By price in trading cards
- 87 of 100
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- 2023-24 Panini Prizm basketball, card #136, Silver Prizm parallel; released February 2024
- Maker
- Panini
- Box format
- Hobby boxes of 12 packs with 12 cards per pack
- Subject
- Victor Wembanyama, San Antonio Spurs, first overall pick of the 2023 NBA Draft, 19 at his debut
- Rookie status
- Rookie card from his 2023-24 rookie season
- This entry
- Silver Prizm parallel, PSA 10 (GEM MT)
- Most graded
- A November 2025 report counted 45,025 graded copies of his Prizm rookie, the most of any Prizm rookie card
- License
- One of the last Prizm releases made under Panini's NBA license, which expires in 2026
The last Prizm years
The 2023-24 edition of Panini's Prizm basketball line carried extra weight: Panini's NBA license was set to expire in 2026, making it one of the last licensed Prizm sets. It also held the rookie cards of the 2023 draft class, led by Victor Wembanyama.
The set reached stores in February 2024, while Wembanyama's rookie season was under way; one product guide gives the release date as February 7. Hobby boxes held 12 packs of 12 cards. Each base card comes in a long ladder of Prizm parallels, from unnumbered colors to numbered versions such as Blue to 150, Red to 100, Purple to 75, Pink to 50, Bronze to 20 and Neon Green to 5, up to one-of-one cards.
This entry is the Silver Prizm parallel of Wembanyama's card #136. In 2026 a PSA 10 Silver brought several times the roughly $390 that a base PSA 10 was trading for in May.
The alien
Victor Wembanyama was born January 4, 2004, in Le Chesnay, France. His father competed in track and field and his mother is a basketball coach and former player. In 2022-23, playing for Metropolitans 92, he became the youngest MVP in the history of France's top league while leading it in scoring (21.6 points), rebounding (10.4) and blocks (3.1). The Spurs took him first overall in 2023, the first French player ever drafted first.
He debuted on October 25, 2023, and in 71 games averaged 21.4 points, 10.6 rebounds, 3.9 assists and a league-leading 3.6 blocks. He was the unanimous Rookie of the Year, the first rookie ever named to the All-Defensive First Team, runner-up for Defensive Player of the Year, and the first player in NBA history with at least 1,500 points, 250 blocks and 100 made three-pointers in a season. That summer he won a silver medal with France at the Paris Olympics.
His second season ended early: after his first All-Star selection, a deep vein thrombosis was found in his right shoulder in February 2025. He came back in 2025-26 and averaged 25.0 points and 11.5 rebounds, became the youngest and the first unanimous Defensive Player of the Year, made All-NBA First Team and led the Spurs to the NBA Finals in his first playoff run.
A hobby fixation
Wembanyama's rookie became the most submitted Prizm rookie card ever. A November 2025 report counted 45,025 graded copies, passing Zion Williamson's 42,517, which had led since 2019. Another report put the number of PSA 10 base Prizm Wembanyama rookies at more than 27,000 as of May 2026, the sixth-highest graded population for any athlete's card.
The flood of graded copies has shaped prices. The base PSA 10 traded under $100 in February 2025 and around $390 by May 2026, according to one market guide.
The rarest versions trade in another world. A Nebula one-of-one graded PSA 9 sold at auction for $860,100 in February 2025, a National Treasures patch one-of-one in PSA 10 sold privately for $552,050 in May 2026, and a Prizm Black one-of-one in PSA 10 was reported, but not verified, to have sold for $5.11 million that month.
What a Silver 10 brings
On July 26, 2026, a PSA 10 Silver sold in a weekly online auction for $3,240 with buyer's premium. Market listings show PSA 10 Silvers changing hands near that level through August and September 2026, with recorded sales from $2,965 to $3,456.01.
Earlier online auctions for PSA 10 Silvers, undated on their lot pages, closed at $637, $672 and $2,258 with premium. PSA 9 Silvers were offered in summer 2026 for $1,200 to $1,320, less than half the price of a 10.
A modern benchmark
With more graded copies than any Prizm rookie before it, the Wembanyama card is not scarce in any ordinary sense. What sets the PSA 10 Silver apart is the player: a unanimous Rookie of the Year who, by his third season, was a unanimous Defensive Player of the Year and an NBA Finalist.
Because the 2023-24 set is among the last Prizm releases made under Panini's NBA license, it also marks the end of a run for the product itself.
The numbers
- 2023-24 season (rookie)
- 71 G, 71 GS, 29.7 MPG, 21.4 PPG, 10.6 RPG, 3.9 APG, 1.2 SPG, 3.6 BPG (led NBA), .465 FG%, .325 3P%, .796 FT%. Rookie of the Year (unanimous), All-Defensive First Team, 2nd in DPOY voting. Age 20.
- 2023-24 first
- First player in NBA history with 1,500 points, 250 blocks and 100 made threes in a season
- 2025-26 season
- 64 G, 25.0 PPG, 11.5 RPG, 3.1 APG, .512 FG%. Defensive Player of the Year (unanimous), All-NBA First Team
- Career
- 23.4 PPG, 11.0 RPG, 3.5 APG, 3.5 BPG; 2 All-Star selections
- Draft
- 2023, first overall, San Antonio Spurs
Timeline
Victor Wembanyama is born in Le Chesnay, France.
He wins the French league MVP for Metropolitans 92, the youngest ever.
The Spurs draft him first overall.
Wembanyama makes his NBA debut.
Panini releases 2023-24 Prizm basketball with his rookie at #136.
He is named unanimous Rookie of the Year and first-team All-Defense.
He wins Olympic silver with France in Paris.
A deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder ends his season; a Nebula 1/1 PSA 9 sells at auction for $860,100.
His Prizm rookie passes Zion Williamson's as the most graded Prizm rookie, at 45,025 copies.
He wins Defensive Player of the Year unanimously and leads the Spurs to the NBA Finals.
A PSA 10 Silver sells at online auction for $3,240.
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Price record
| Date | Price | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 2026 | $3,240 | Sold at auctionSilver Prizm #136, PSA 10, weekly online auction, with buyer's premium. |
A realized auction price is what a buyer actually paid on the date shown, including the buyer's premium where the sale reported it. It is the strongest kind of reference price, and it is a record of one sale of one object on one day, not a promise of what the next example will bring.
By reference price, 2023-24 Panini Prizm Victor Wembanyama #136 Silver RC is number 87 of 100 in the trading cards entries of the FLOAT 100. 97 of those 100 rest on a realized sale; the rest carry an asking price or a guide value, and each page says which. Rank within the FLOAT 100 itself (96 here) is editorial: how much an object defines its field, not price alone.
Did you know
- Wembanyama was the first French player ever drafted first overall in the NBA.
- He was the first rookie named to the NBA's All-Defensive First Team.
- No player before him had 1,500 points, 250 blocks and 100 threes in a season.
- His Prizm rookie passed Zion Williamson's as the most graded Prizm rookie card ever.
- He became the first unanimous Defensive Player of the Year in NBA history, in 2025-26.
- His mother is a basketball coach and his father competed in track and field.
How this page is made
- The figure
- One reference price, shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. An asking price, an estimate and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- The story
- Researched from published records and checked fact by fact. Updated Oct 3, 2026.
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